Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (18K06506, 16H06277)
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Article History
Received: 4 August 2018
Accepted: 5 August 2018
First Online: 10 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the intuitional review board of Mihara Memorial Hospital (084–02). We obtained written informed consent from the deceased relatives for autopsy and further neuropathological analysis, and all subjects were registered with our brain bank for future research. The brain bank was approved by the Ethics Committee of Mihara Memorial Hospital for neuropathological analysis (072–01, 078–01, 085–01).
: We obtained written informed consent from the deceased relatives for publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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